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Issue: Vol. 422 No. 1: 21 October 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.422.1.7
Page range: 101–105
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Ophioderma redactophylla (Ophioglossaceae), a new fern from the Malay Peninsula

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90112, Thailand.
Department of Botany, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Kasetsart University, Kampaeng Saen Campus, Nakhon Pathom 73140, Thailand.
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China.
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, U.S.A.; Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 416, Chengdu 610041, China.
Eusporangiate ferns Ophioglossum Peninsular Thailand Pteridophytes

Abstract

Ophioderma redactophylla is described and illustrated as a new species from the Malay Peninsula. It is characterized by vermiform underground parts without tuberous rhizomes, the flat stalks, the linear trophophore, and the sporophore surpassing the trophophore. A taxonomic description and illustrations of the new species are presented. A key to species of Ophioderma is provided.